This podcast was totally deceiving, I really wanted a podcast with Aasif Mandvi and I got Janina Gavankar interrupting every sentence. I understand that people riff and conversations involve people talking over each other but the main reason why I was annoyed with this one was that I think Aasif Mandvi is really interesting and I wanted to hear what he had to say. Also, when people popped into previous podcasts, they would stay for 10 minutes and then leave. Janina was in the podcast for the whole episode, except for the first 10 minutes.

A more accurate title for this episode would be Aasif Mandvi and Janina Gavankar, Long Time Friends.

In the intro, Chris said that he was bringing Janina back for her own podcast. I’d really recommend bringing Aasif back for the conversation we all wanted to hear instead.

Janina made this one difficult for me. She continually attempts to commandeer the conversation. I was really looking forward to hearing a more focussed talk with Mr. Mandvi. I’m 49min into the podcast and officially give up.